Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to appear in Iranian court next month

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is set to appear in an Iranian court on December 10.

London (CNN)Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will appear in an Iranian court on December 10 to face charges of "spreading propaganda," her husband told CNN Thursday.

The dual British-Iranian citizen has been in jail in Iran for the past 19 months after being given a five-year sentence on espionage charges that she and her family vehemently deny.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe found herself at the center of an international dispute between the UK and Iran following a mistake by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

Johnson mistakenly told a British parliamentary committee earlier this month that Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran teaching journalists when she was detained. Her family and employer have always insisted she was visiting family on vacation.

"I can tell you that people here in the Foreign Office and across government have been working very hard over the last 19 months to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and indeed to solve some other very difficult consular cases in Iran," Johnson said.